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I'm no expert on metadata but I will try and help out.
The .DSX files in Runtime\Support\ are plain text.
That means they can be opened in a text editor to see exactly what data they store. This includes products & the exported UserData_1.dsx file/s from Content DB Maintenance. Make sure your text editor is refreshed if it's open when you make changes to the files.
From my tests most user metadata changes seem to be saving, exporting and importing properly.
Changes made from "Content Library: Products: Content DB Editor" saves User Data for:
Asset Value, Content Type, Categories, Compatibilities, Compatibility Base & User/Keywords. But I could NOT get it to save user data for Description, Audience or Tags (so I would use userwords/keywords instead of tags).
Changes made from "Content Library: DAZ / Poser Formats: Content DB Editor":
As far as User Data, this seems to work the same as doing it from products (see above). It just does not save the product files & does not access the top level product information. Although if you open the product later and save it, it will update the product files with the changes. This even works after closing & re-starting DS.
Other changes made from the Content Library:
Tags (keywords & notes) & Right clicking: Categorize all seem to be working. Categories might need to have at least 1 item assigned to them to work.
In the Content DB Editor make sure "Sync Product & Local Database" is checked. Otherwise some User Data values I listed above may not be saved on export and I ran into issues updating Compatibilities when it was off.
I can't access CMS but I assume it's the same data being stored when we export User Data. The main differences being that it's easier to backup, edit & restore since we can work with text files and don't have to start/stop the CMS.
Here is how to test out if your changes are being saved/exported & imported properly:
1. Make changes to a test asset's metadata.
2. Export your user data in Content DB Maintance.
3. Open the runtime/support/UserData_1.dsx file in a text editor & search (ctrl+F) for your changes to confirm.
4. Remove or edit the changes you made in step 1 but don't export, to see if the 1st changes can be restored.
5. Go to Content DB Maintance & select "Re-Import Metadata":
6. Uncheck "All Products", make sure user data files & override are checked, Accept.
7. Check your test asset to see if the changes from step 1 have been restored.
Hope some of this was helpful. I recommend updating the original post to make it more clear and concise as you discover answers to make it easier for people to learn from and add to. Also might help to cross link to this thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/6123/
Here are some links that might also be helpful:
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To me it looks like support/user data stores any changes from the "original" product state (excluding: tags, description & audience). Saving the support/product files do not seem to remove any information from support/user data, unless you remove things that were added to the original state. I do not know if there is work around for this.
It is annoying that some changes must be exported through DB Maintenance. And also that when using DB editor from Poser/DAZ Formats it also has to be opened again from products to export. Do you know if the CMS database directory stores all of our metadata changes and we could just back that up? It is annoying to have to stop, restart it, etc though. I feel safest backing up everything.
I quick link to Product Library would be nice... but can 1 item be in more than 1 product? I've been able to paste references into multiple products but I'm not sure if your not supposed to. And they could even have a link to a list of products I guess.
It is a shame that metadata and many other features of DAZ have very poor, out of date or no documentation. So many people have to waste so much time just because they did not do what should have been a requirement from the start. I wonder how many hours have been lost. Honestly the time commitment is a bigger factor than $ when I consider buying most products at this point.
I thought the entire point of metadata was that it was supposed to save time? I feel like all the trouble of managing it may take up more time then it saves. I seem to do OK making my own directory structures with old content but the auto material matching and stuff is nice.
I would love a install/update system like steam.
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I did try backing up CMS, removing it's database files & re-importing my support/product & user data files. Didn't check it all but it seemed like almost everything was restored how I customized it. I was missing a few custom products I made but I might not have set them up correctly. So I restored my backed up CMS.
Yeah, Metadata could be great if it was more consistent, reliable, well documented, easy/fast to manage. In it's current state it has been a nightmare. It doesn't help that I bought a ton of stuff in a short time with all the sales. So for now I'm really cutting back.
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If you need to know specific characteristics of a population, backtrack to the Orange County page and click on STF3A Tables. Here you get a long list of data, ranging from race and family type to the time residents leave for work. Check off the information you want, hit the Submit button, and you can download the information.
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In January, the Census Bureau introduced a CD-ROM, Landview III, that functions similarly to the Tiger Map Service. The full U.S. version is $549; a combination of states costs $99. These products can be purchased through the Census Bureau's Web site.
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In many ways, Sharon Tabor typifies the corporate refugee. The 39-year-old North Carolina resident left a retail management job two years ago to run her own business because she was "tired of the corporate rat race."
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Currently, Tabor does most of her marketing through guide books and via the Internet. When we asked her how she thought the Census Bureau could help her business, she confessed that she had been completely unaware of the service. "If I had known it was there," she says, "I would have looked at it."
After this revelation, Tabor decided to use the Bureau to help her pinpoint the regions where she should spend her future marketing dollars. "The visitors who typically come to a bed-and-breakfast are 40 to 45 years old, have an annual income over $40,000 and are college-educated. They're mostly couples on a weekend getaway," Tabor says. "Right now, I don't know where people who fit this profile are located."
Tabor researched Omaha, Nebraska. She chose income under Subjects A to Z, hit "1990 Census Lookup" and then "STF3C-part 1," then checked the information she needed. The data table she created included age, education, occupation and median household and per capita incomes for 1989. This helped Tabor discover exactly why she doesn't have many customers in Omaha. The largest population numbers were in the 25- to 44-year-old age group, and most people were not college graduates. While there were many professional specialty occupations, the largest industry by far was administrative support occupations (i.e., clerical jobs). The median household income of $30,000 was also below that of her typical customer.
Tabor's conclusion? "These statistics are a good guide for determining what region to advertise in," she says. And that's the beauty of using the Census Bureau--you get targeted market research at the best price in the world.
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The Census' Web page is a good resource for people looking to expand internationally. From the home page, your path begins at the Current Economic Indicators, then goes to Business, International Trade, and Country by one-digit SITC (Standard International Trade Classification) commodity trade data.
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West Brom boss Pepe Mel feels his side are "pretty much safe" after their 1-0 victory over West Ham at The Hawthorns.
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Since the first drill penetrated a piece of metal, deburring holes has represented a necessary additional step in the machining process. Essentially, removing a burr involves cutting a small chamfer on the edge of a hole to remove the metal ridge that remains after a drilling operation. Although this can be performed by hand using a file or burr knife, manual deburring involves substantial time and labor.
As machine shops become more process oriented, an important goal is to eliminate secondary operations. Hole-deburring is one area where manufacturers can save time without making a big investment in capital equipment. Like a cutting tool, a deburring tool can be used much more efficiently when it's loaded into the ATC of a machining or turning center. By allocating a station in the tool magazine for a deburring tool, the operator can reduce cycle times and production costs. Instead of moving workpieces to the bench for handwork, the machine completes deburring automatically.
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In-process deburring is a fairly simple idea that allows a machining center to complete holes in a single setup. Although automatic deburring slightly increases the machine's cycle time, it offsets this extra time by eliminating the substantial chore of hand deburring. Additionally, hole-to-hole consistency is much better than that possible when deburring manually.
Double-acting deburring tools have existed for many years. Although several different tool designs are available, all share the same basic concept. These tools incorporate an arbor and a spring-loaded cutting blade that protrudes outside its circumference. When used on through-holes, the tool breaks the top edge of the hole as it enters and breaks the back edge as it exits the workpiece. During this operation, the cutting blade compresses inside the bore and adjusts to its taper.
In the past, double-acting deburring tools have been available only for relatively large bore sizes. Deburring small holes was previously deemed to be impractical because of the problems involved in manufacturing tools strong enough to do the job, but small enough to fit into the holes. Additionally, the manufacturing technology necessary to downsize these tools was not formerly available.
E-Z Burr Tool Company (Plymouth, Michigan) addressed this problem by using new micro-machining techniques to manufacture these small tools. The company includes a group of small deburring tools known as the "micro series" in its product line. These tools can deburr holes as small as 0.030-inch diameter. Recently, this line of tools was redesigned to incorporate a holder with a replaceable blade cartridge. When the blade dulls, the operator simply removes the cartridge and inserts a new one. This eliminates the extra time and other problems associated with separate, miniature blades, arbors and setscrews.
Like many double-acting deburring tools, the micro series can deburr both sides of a through-hole. It's designed with a single, flexible blade that retracts into the arbor to adjust to the hole's diameter. As the rotating tool enters a drilled hole, the blade's tapered cutting edge breaks the corner of the hole, thus removing any burrs. As the tool is fed farther into the bore, the hole's taper acts as a wedge, pushing the blade back into the arbor.
The blade's outside cutting edge incorporates a radius that prevents damage to the hole's surface as the tool passes through the finished bore. Without reversing the spindle's rotation or dwelling, the tool deburrs the backside of the hole when it is withdrawn by simply reversing the Z-axis feed direction.
Throughput is a driving force in the manufacturing business. Getting work out the door as quickly as possible while minimizing costs associated with non value-added labor often represents the difference between profit and loss. Consequently, it makes good sense to perform as many operations as possible in a single setup. Thus, automated deburring tools represent an additional means of reducing manufacturing costs. When employed as an automatic function in the overall machining process, hole-deburring no longer represents a production bottleneck.
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Burrs are a nemesis for most metalworking shops. And cross-hole burrs are among the worst cases that shops encounter. For most applications, deburring must be done off-line as a secondary operation.
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AG candidates would seek to require fingerprint scanners in new guns sold in Massachusetts
WBUR reports on a gun-control debate between Democratic attorney-general candidates Warren Tolman and Maura Healey. Tolman would require fingerprint authentication for new guns, which he called the unsafest product for sale today; Healey says she's down with that, too, but wants to focus on broader crime issues.
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Great idea
Most dangerous on the market? A car kills more people than guns.
I propose that every car has a interlock breath device in the car to end drunk driving murders. And there is a three day waiting list for alcohol, so we can conduct a background check to ensure that you have no history of OUI or alcohol abuse. I also propose that we limit the amount of alcohol that a person may buy and limit the strength of the beverage, no one needs alcohol with anything above 10% alcohol by volume.
Strawman fallacy.
Strawman fallacy.
Red herring.
Red herring.
try to stay on topic
Many people need a car to get to work to earn a paycheck to pay the rent, grocery bills and health insurance. Does an AK47 help you pay the rent? Think about it.
Bill of Rights vs. Bill of
Bill of Rights vs. Bill of Needs?
depends what you do for a
depends what you do for a living!
I am on topic
They are not just talking about AK-47's, they are talking about all firearms. And yes, plenty of people rely on firearms for paychecks to pay rent, etc.
Tolman said they are the most dangerous item on the market, which I was pointing out that they are not. I then was sarcastically suggesting that in order to make the roadways safer, bc many more peoples are killed from drunk driving accidents then firearm deaths, that we could implement some "common sense solutions" to deter drinking and driving. I know people need their vehicles to get to work, but they don't need to be drunk to do it. So if we install the interlocks on all cars, then people could still get to work without endangering anyone in the process. It doesn't effect anyone ability to drive a car, only if theyre drunk. And the same applies to alcohol, as it also kills/injures more people than firearms.
See, so I was on topic.
Guns are far from the most dangerous
product. Cars, Prescriptions Drugs, Ciggs, Booze all kill at a higher rate than guns.
I own three chain saws.
I own three chain saws. A running chain saw would probably be more terrifying than a .38 at the local 7-11.
NOBODY will reach for a running chain saw. But, better to use the gas one rather than the electric. If I can get it started.
Bottom line: Technology is sometimes unreliable. If I were (was?) a cop, the last thing I would tolerate is something getting between me and a tool that I need in a life or death situation.
Say what you want about concealed carry, but if you're licensed in Mass to CC, then you sure as hell know what you're doing, safety-wise. You also know that when you really need it, it has to work the first time. Your hands better be clean or the reader might malfunction.
My take? It's just a cheap ploy to get more pistols banned.
Dude , I had the same trouble
Dude , I had the same trouble with the saws. Try this when you hard store them, works sweet.
I've heard of that stuff.
Cheap bastard that I am, I was using marine winterizer. Good suggestion, thanks.
Empty out the stabilized gas
Empty out the stabilized gas first, use the good dope, take the hit for the $$$ . Middle of Feb. , when a limb falls and you got to cut it up, the saw will start. If you really want to go wild , some of the Sunoco's sell ethanol free high octane racing fuel in 5 gal. pails, it's dear , $69 or so. I have an old Husquavrna , that just won't run on the ethanol gas. I keep it , it's a beast , .058 thickness chain . Timber !
Except that
cars, prescription drugs, and booze only kill if they're improperly used. Guns have only one purpose - to injure and kill things.
"Guns have only one purpose - to injure and kill things."
Make sure you tell that to Marty Walsh during his next Boston Olympics meeting. The lives of all of those live targets the athletes shoot must be saved.
I agree with that, to an extent.
There are a lot of target shooters out there. So, there's a second purpose.
Anyway, yes, guns can be used to kill people and animals. It's actually one of their most basic functions.
So, why add something that interferes with its function?
My comment was aimed (get it?) at roadman
Res jumped in line ahead of me, waaahhh.
look at all killers....
Those kill the users, guns
Those kill the users, guns kill the users sometimes but usually others, often innocent people.
An intoxicated driver had never killed an innocent bystander? Or a family driving along in another car?
Maybe so, but no one has ever
Maybe so, but no one has ever died having had cigarettes pills or a chainsaw thrown at them.
Criminals that already break
Criminals that already break every law in the book would use these why?
Also why does the AG think they have the authority to legislate?
So you are saying no one is
So you are saying no one is killed with a legally purchased gun? What are gun owners so afraid of? If they aren't killing people with their guns there is no harm. But that is the issue, gun owners want to be do whatever they want with their guns with no repercussions.
So law abiding people can't
So law abiding people can't own something because some other people might break the law?
I guess we all can't buy alcohol or cough syrup anymore because someone might abuse it.
I don't think you understand
I don't think you understand at all....read more of the comments for details but it sounds like your mind was made up before you clicked on the link
Flip side: why do gun
Flip side: why do gun advocates constantly run with the line that since any gun regulation will not stop 100% of illegal acts with guns, therefore no regulation should be attempted? Because that's basically what the opponents are arguing here. One would never apply the same logic to motor vehicles and suggest since traffic lights do not prevent all accidents, therefore we should just get rid of them.
In the cost-benefit analysis, what is the cost of doing this? It will not harm lawful gun owners and will prevent some illegal use of guns. I see no real downside other than yes it will not prevent all illegal acts but no law does or can.
I agree with you, except the
I agree with you, except the "won't harm any gun owners" is usually determined by someone who knows nothing about guns and is wrong (see southern preachers lecturing scientists about global warming and evolution) and the fact that it is established fact that nothing will ever be enough....they are all incremental steps toward a very restrictive end goal (see "minor inconvenience" anti-abortion laws like ultrasound and counseling)
Not trolling and actually
Not trolling and actually asking: what harm would this cause lawful gun owners?
simply put: there are almost
simply put: there are almost no guns that exist that would meet this requirement and NONE have been made in numbers beyond the prototype phase. So in the short term it would completely stop all gun sales in the state. In the long term (think several years at least) someone might develop large production run of one or two models for sale (still unlikely due to economies of scale) or a way to retrofit existing designs (also unlikely). Basically at the very best it would end all gun sales in the state for several years and after that limit the selection to a few, more expensive, less reliable models.
So the harm would be that gun
So the harm would be that gun owners could not purchase more guns for some period of time, if what you're saying is correct. But it would not imperil existing gun owners since they're not going to retrofit existing firearms.
It would not imperil guns
It would not imperil guns currently owned by anyone no...so people that never intended on purchasing a firearm (or selling one) ever again would not be impacted. This would be a small percentage of gun owners. It would also impact everyone who has not been able to purchase one yet because of age, finances etc.
Guess what? These laws have
Guess what? These laws have been passed for a very long time to no effect. You really think more will help? The same people are breaking the law which always broke the law in the first place.
This is all about control for power hungry politicians and not crime.
Cars and guns.
One big problem is lax enforcement of our current laws. Laws are not going to work if they're not enforced. This can be seen everywhere. Look at how many cars don't yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, especially when there's a "yield to pedestrians" sign. Follow that with how often people are pulled over and fined for that very act. Is the solution to make a new law? No, the solution is to go out there and enforce the law currently on the books.
Massachusetts already has an approved firearms roster. All of the guns on the link below are legal for sale in the state of Massachusetts. Now look at all of the postings Adam has put up with seized firearms, and follow that up with a look over what BPD has confiscated. You'll find a number of firearms listed by both Adam, and the BPD which are not on the state's approved firearms roster. This to me is pretty solid proof of a firearms ban not working. It works for people such as myself who choose to follow the laws. For those who have no care at all the ban is simply a suggestion and criminals may not even know it exists.
So the cost-benefit analysis? What benefit does it have? I say none and say so because firearms in the state of Massachusetts are already supposed to be locked up, and kept from individuals unfit to procure a firearm.
On the flip side
On the flip side, why do gun control advocates only look to attack lawful gun owners? Why not say, go after the criminals? This law is like the NY law that you can only have 7 rounds in your magazine. The only person that law inconveniences is the lawful gun owner, the idiot with the illegal firearm isn't worried about that extra misdemeanor charge for having more than 7 rounds in his magazine.
"Hey I'm going to shoot someone"
" hey man, before you go shoot that place up, make sure you don't have more than 7 rounds in your magazine, you def don't want that charge added on to your attempted murder charge"
This law is going to cost the legal gun owner more money to buy the firearm and like someone else pointed out, this is more of a way to ban more firearms bc most firearm companies aren't going to spend the money or aggravation on doing this to their guns, the market and headache in MA isn't worth it.
How about, I don't know, young the mandatory minimum on illegal possession of a firearm?
If you're gonna engage, leave
If you're gonna engage, leave the straw men at home. There might be a legitimate point to saying these will have minimum benefit even if enacted, there's at least an argument there most people will listen to including me. But to say gun control advocates, who number many DAs and police orgs along with regular citizens, don't care about going after criminals is a bunch of bs.
this is true...but the agenda
this is true...but the agenda most of them push typically impacts lawful gun owners more than criminals. When I hear the brady campaign or bloomberg calling for mandatory life sentences for felons in possession and not whining about complete red-herrings like assault weapons, smart guns, and ammo microstamping I might pay attention
A pefect example of a clueless person.
The biometric systems are highly unreliable. Fingerprint technology is known to have problems. So much in fact a new fingerprint locking tool comes standard with a key backup for unlocking the device:
Could be worse.
Could be a retina scanner like in the Terminator. For those who don't know, he ripped a guy's eyeball out and held it up to a retina scanner. Haha. H...woh.
In order to activate it you must look straight into the barrel...
Wait wasn't the Demolition
Wait wasn't the Demolition Man?
I thought we just got done
I thought we just got done passing a bunch of gun control?
Its a talking point, just like schools
To think, local politicians have been campaigning on fixing BPS for decades. And look!
This is a nice theory, but
This is a nice theory, but again, is something that will only apply to lawful gun owners. Once a firearm is stolen, the trigger will be replaced, or the technology stripped or what have you.
It may stop unarmed teens from being shot 8 times when allegedly reaching for a police officers firearm (since it would do them no good anyways) but outside of immediate use cases I don't see this being very effective.
The unlocking of stolen cell
The unlocking of stolen cell phone should be a hint that this tech won't work.
This would be a defacto ban
This would be a defacto ban on all gun sales in the state due to the fact that almost no one makes these products and tooling up to produce them for one state would not be economical.
Meanwhile the vast, vast majority of crime guns will continue to come out of state and once again only law abiding gun owners will suffer.
Oh....and you can be sure they will exempt the police
It would
take them $300m and 2 years to create a database to store the information.
That's not true, there are
That's not true, there are plenty of such products out there... the problem is, the last time a store tried selling one, they got so many death threats, they had to take it off market - it would've triggered the NJ smart-gun law.
No there aren't. Why do you
No there aren't. Why do you think this tech isn't ALL OVER CONTROL HAPPY EUROPE?
are you talking about the
are you talking about the shitty 22 pistol that cost 4,000 dollars.....yeah real competitive
Wait, law abiding gun owners
Wait, law abiding gun owners acted like thugs and threatened to murder the owner. But I thought gun owners were angels who never used or threatened to use their weapons to hurt people.
if someone was threatening to
if someone was threatening to kill someone else they are by definition not law abiding.....
i wouldn't expect any less of
i wouldn't expect any less of a comment from a ragging democrat. does he propose stricker punishments for criminals who get caught with illegal firearms? Prob not.
Great to see..
that every comment makes sensible points about why this measure, and ALL other attempts at gun control by the state of MA, will fail: they will have no effect whatsoever on the rates of violent gun crime in Boston/Lawrence/Springfield/etc. because criminals will simply acquire the type of gun they need through whatever channel is available to them.
To any "liberal" who supports "gun control":
If you think the drug war has failed (and it has), why do you think prohibitions on guns will be any more successful (or any less racist in effect if not intent)?
I STRONGLY encourage you guys to frequently check the BPSnews website. You will find that:
A) Guns get taken off the streets on the daily
B) The people causing trouble almost always are possessing the gun illegally without a license (I've never seen otherwise)
C) Most of the guns seized are models that are already illegal to sell in Massachusetts
this is just another ploy by a mass politician to push around an unpopular demographic in mass (gunowners)
this is no different from politicians in alabama passing all kinds of stupid rules about abortion to push around a unpopular demographic in alabama (women who want abortions)
political grandstanding that serves nothing more than punishing people minding their own business
because its not a prohibition
because its not a prohibition on guns the way the drug war was. The drug war is being (slowly) replaced with regulations on selling drugs, while right wingers say any regulation on owning and using weapons is a prohibition, which is a lie. There are regulations and rules (databases) on owning cars or operating larger vehicles requires more training and licenses. But right wingers want weapons floating around everywhere, bringing the wild west circa 1850 to cities where everyone will be able to have whatever they want, including terrorists, and we will have daily shoot outs and maybe the "good guys" will win.
The wild west was
The wild west was historically far more peaceful than popular culture has lead people to believe.
Real gun control, not this BS
I want real gun control -- banning many weapons entirely. But the fingerprint thing is just stupid. The people buying firearms in legit, over the counter sales are not the gangs and thugs. The over-the-counter sales are more likely to be involved in something domestic (if used for harm) and in these cases a fingerprint isn't needed. A fingerprint won't stop a weapon from being stolen and it isn't going to stop weapons bring brought in from other states with lax laws.
Illegal Guns?
Come from "out of state?!?" And,somehow, that is "proof" that we don't need any refinement, adjustment, etc. of gun laws?
In my thinking, the fact that illegal guns come from "out of state" (ie; from a state with lax gun laws) proves that tighter, national gun laws are needed. I'd betcha dollars for donuts that every "restrictive" state is bordered by a lenient one, and that guns flow freely over the border. Great system, isn't it?
National Gun Laws
are working wonders for our neighbors. Mexico almost had zero murders in the last 10 min.
Most of the illegal guns (as
Most of the illegal guns (as well as many of the legal ones) in Mexico come the USA. The US is the Mexico of illegal guns, where lax laws and enforcement leads our neighbors in the North and South with an infestation of illegal weapons.
So your argument is about
So your argument is about federal laws? Great, vote for someone to further your agenda, in the mean time leave law abiding gun owners in Massachusetts alone
Exactly, MA needs no further
Exactly, MA needs no further gun laws. The focus needs to go outside our borders and leave our law abiding gun owners out of it.
Since 1998 when MA passed
Since 1998 when MA passed stricter laws than the bordering states our crime rate has gone up while theirs has gone down.
The issue is criminals themselves and not the tools of the trade.
Criminals generally use ILLEGALLY
owned guns. And it is these people who are responsible for the vast majority of 'gun crime' in the U.S. You can pass all the laws in the world aimed at legal gun owners, it won't make a dent in the rampant violent crime and gun related crime which occurs statistically overwhelmingly in some urban neighborhoods. As for MA passing all kinds of legal gun ownership restrictions, it's meaningless grandstanding by politicians and 'advocates'. The average person who commits the typical violent gun related crime doesn't give a crap about the law and can pretty easily obtain illegal guns and other firearms, often sourced outside this state. MA doesn't have border guards, our borders (much like our national borders in many spots) are wide open.
Criminals generally use
Criminals generally use ILLEGALLY owned guns.
Really? Do you have any evidence to back that up?
Most violent offenders
have established criminal histories,especially gelony convictions, which automatically make it illegal for them to own a firearm. Yet, who'd have thunk it, they obtain them (illegally) and use them,anyways.
Almost all the guns, probaly all of them actually, in the City of Boston for example, that are used in a violent crime, are illegally obtained and used by unlicensed owners.


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With many products and services you can increase sales and attract large numbers of new clients by using personalisation.
Personalisation just means you modify what you are selling so that it has more value to a particular type of customer.
Here are some examples to get you thinking:
Many years ago I wrote my first newsletter on sales and marketing. It was called "McGregor's Message" and was two pages long.
On the first page there were 2-3 simple sales and marketing ideas that people could read and use. On the back page there was a recommended book to read, a motivational quotation and a humorous business cartoon.
A good friend looked at this newsletter and said 'Graham you should customise this newsletter for different industries'.
I thought that was an interesting idea so I wrote five sample newsletters with the same basic ideas in each one.
However I modified a couple of the examples and action exercises so they were now relevant to five different industries.
One was real estate, another was professional services, one was retail selling and so on.
One of the marketing ideas was on how to get referrals. So I would explain the four steps to getting referrals which were the same for any industry or business. Then in the example for someone in real estate I would give them the exact words they could use when asking for referrals. I had slightly different words for someone offering professional services and the other industries I wrote the sample newsletters for.
I discovered that by personalising the information like this it made it much more valuable than just a general newsletter on sales and marketing. And I had a good number of sales as a result.
Years later I was writing short booklets on personal and business success. I would give these away to clients and potential clients as a way to add value and stay in touch with them.
This led to a lot of repeat and referral business.
I then personalised these same booklets by putting the names and details of some of my clients printed on the cover and inside cover of each booklet. I then showed them how they could use these same booklets (now with their name on) to stay in touch and add value to a large number of people. Many of my clients started enjoying more repeat and referral sales when they used these personalised booklets.
Now this personalised approach can be used in a huge number of products and services.
Let's say you sold bicycles.
A large number of people today who get into cycling for the first time are men and women aged in their forties and fifties. So you might offer a series of short workshops on how to get started and enjoy cycling for baby boomers who are interested in cycling. You could show them what is involved, what they need to do to enjoy cycling, and some common mistakes to avoid etc. What you have now done is offer a personalised service for a particular group of people. The bikes you sell haven't changed. However this new service would be very valuable for many potential clients.
In the supermarket recently I've noticed you can now buy a bottle of Coke with your own name on it. (And people I know are buying these.)
A marketing newsletter I subscribe to has my name "Graham" printed in each hard copy edition of the newsletter that is mailed to me. This make me feel special whenever I read it.
When you personalise what your offer you make it more valuable to certain groups of people. And it's an interesting way to make a normal product or service memorable and special.
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different" - Coco Chanel
Action Exercise:
How can you personalise what you sell? What could you include with your offer to personalise it in some way that certain customers would value?


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NSPCC reports surge in 'emotional abuse' referrals
The number of emotional abuse cases being referred by a children's charity helpline to police and children's services has surged by nearly 50% in the last year.
The NSPCC's anonymous helpline, which supports and offers advice to adults who are worried about a child, has assisted more than 8,000 people who have with concerns for children suffering from emotional neglect and abuse this year, with 5,354 of these cases so serious they were referred to local authorities. Last year, 3,629 such cases were referred.
In an example of an emotional abuse call to the NSPCC, a member of the public contacted the helpline with concerns about a teenager who was routinely being singled out and belittled by his stepfather.
The figures come as the government considers a change to the law to tackle the emotional neglect and abuse of children. The so-called Cinderella Law would update the 1933 criminal offence of child cruelty to include emotional neglect and abuse as well as physical abuse.
More 60,000 people in total have contacted the helpline this year, which is an increase of 21% compared to last year. Cases such as that of Daniel Pelka, the four-year-old who was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012, may have triggered the surge, the NSPCC said.
John Cameron, head of child protection operations, said: "Emotional neglect and abuse cause real harm to children and we are supporting more people than ever before who want a safe, non-judgmental place in which to talk through their concerns.
"As a result of this we are able to recognise the most serious cases and are referring an unprecedented number of emotional neglect and abuse cases to children's services and the police.
"The Government has indicated they are set to outlaw extreme emotional cruelty and this is a positive step forward and the publicity around this and highly publicised cases such as Daniel Pelka may have contributed to the sharp increase in calls.
"We must recognise extreme emotional abuse for what it is – a crime – and those who carry it out should be prosecuted. This isn't about prosecuting parents who don't buy their children the latest gadgets or trainers, this is about parents who consistently deny their children love and affection."


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On a brief parole from grading gaol …
Ian Saginor over at Volcanoclast is hosting this month's accretionary wedge on the topic of countertop geology. As with many wedges, the geoblogosphere has largely decided to ignore, well at least modify, the brief (probably because we mostly have laminate counter tops). Fortunately, Ian has kindly expanded the topic to include any rocks 'as long as they're decorative and completely detached from their origin'.
Unusually for me, my example is a palaeontological offering. This is the centrepiece in the foyer of the wonderfully named Hotel Kasbah Meteorites, in Southern Morocco.
The hotel / kasbah is close to the Berber town of Alnif, famous for it's trilobite fossils. The hills around Alnif Djbel Issimour are called the trilobites mountains and trilobite sellers line the roads like fruit sellers do in other countries. The hotel owners decided to go with the geology motif with highly fossiliferous bathroom surrounds (edit: see below) and this centrepiece of large ammonites and orthocones.
I have a traditional Berber scarf from the rack in the background that I sometimes wear, much to the befuddlement / amusement of my students in the field.
The ammonites and orthocones also appeared as a drinks table in a hotel in Ouarzazate that we stayed in on the last night.
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